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Title: Around Old Bethany

Author: Robert Lee Berry

Release Date: June 14, 2004 [eBook #12616]

Language: English

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AROUND OLD BETHANY

A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary Davis

By

R. L. BERRY

Publisher's Preface

This small volume was first published in the year of 1925, but it has
been out of print for many years. The present reprint edition is in
response to requests for it to be in print again.

The main characters in this true-to-life narrative are led to Bible
salvation, and then step by step into the various Bible doctrines, and
finally to establish a congregation of the Church of God after the
New Testament pattern. In the meantime, the snares of false doctrines
which surrounded them were exposed and they were guided unerringly in
the truth of God's Word.

May the Scriptural truths set forth in this narrative enlighten every
reader, and arm him with "the Sword of the Spirit, which is the word
of God," to meet and refute the false teachings now abroad in our
land.

--Lawrence Pruitt
Guthrie, Oklahoma
May, 1968

Contents

Chapter

1. Beginning the Search

2. A Threatening Quarrel

3. The Schoolhouse Debates

4. The Schoolhouse Debates (Continued)

5. The Schoolhouse Debates (Concluded)

6. What Church Shall We Join?

7. What Say the Scriptures?

8. Robert Davis' Battles

9. The Good Results of an Honest Confession

10. False Guides Appear in Bethany

11. Out of the Valley of the Shadow

12. The Revival Meeting in Bethany

13. The Babel of Tongues

14. A Model Church Established

CHAPTER ONE

BEGINNING THE SEARCH

It was in the year of 1885 that the railroad was put through the
particular corner of Missouri that marks the scene where the events of
this narrative took place. With the coming of